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name of Santa Gloria. To the island itself he gave the name of Santiago,
blue mountains and clumps of lofty trees about the bay were wonderful
accustomed to the beauty of the West Indies, and he lost his heart to
golden shores. Perhaps he was by this time a little out of conceit with
ever used for the other lands of his discovery, and bestowed them in hisfor when he cast anchor the natives came out in canoes threatening
day, however, Columbus wished to careen his ships, and sailed a little to
approached the shore some large canoes filled with painted and feathered
and whooping and screaming at the Spaniards. The guns were discharged,
to flight. There was no renewal of hostilities; the next day the local
and cordial relations established. Columbus noticed that the Jamaicans
people of Espanola. They had enormous canoes hollowed out of single
handled with the greatest ease and dexterity; they had a merry way with
meaning, and in their domestic utensils and implements they showed an
did some trade with the islanders as he sailed along the coast, but he
to the western point of the island he bore away to the north again and
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